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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by arodyginc on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:05PM (#28029395)
You can't cause any real harm to nature without help from corps. But they can, by just setting up an oil drill leaking into the ocean.
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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by pb7 on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:18PM (#28029504)
They would drill for oil nobody wants? I don’t buy that. It’s a two way transaction between supply and demand.
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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by nitwit005 on Sunday August 01, 2021 @06:14PM (#28030647)
You're greatly underestimating what people can manage on their own. Even ancient peoples managed plenty of harm to nature. Deforested whole regions, wiped out species, damaged farmland with irrigation, etc.

Now there are vastly more of us, and we have a lot better tools to do damage with.

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Re:U.S. generates more plastic trash than any other nation, ... by gruez on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:20PM (#28029518)
But they wouldn't be setting up oil drills if there wasn't consumer demand.
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